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Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction

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The Importance of Clarity in Philosophy

Alan Sokol wrote a book about his attempt at doing this hoax and I strongly recommend the book to you but if you're not going to read the whole book reading Richard Dawkins review of the book online is just fantastic. More than once hard scientists or serious people in the humanities have written nonsense papers submitted them to these journals these social science journals and had them published that's a real problem. So by way of example when it comes to making sense or not of postmodernism let's just look at Jacques Derrida there he is. Let me read a short passage from Derrida and see what we can understand of his work. He was the founder of the postmodern philosophy called decon

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